SMITH, Rhonda Renee Wood 1961 - 1997

SMITH, WOOD, FRANCIS, ANDERSON

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 12/21/2017 at 13:09:54

Rhonda Renee Wood Smith, 35, of Garner Iowa died Wednesday, Jan. 15 1997 at the North Iowa Mercy Health Center East Campus, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services were held Monday, Jan. 20 at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, with the Rev. John W. Hemann and Chaplain Rosie Schlueter officiating.

Interment was in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. The family suggests memorials to Hospice of North Iowa or the Rhonda Wood Smith Memorial Fund.

Rhonda was born Feb. 20, 1961 in Mason City the daughter of Ronald K and Barbara L (Anderson) Wood She graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1979 Rhonda worked for NIACOG in Mason City until going to work for Simmering and Cory lnc. in Clear Lake as a municipal consultant.

Rhonda has lived in Garner the last 16 years, where she was on the city council and was mayor of Garner the last three years. She was the first female mayor of Garner. Rhonda enjoyed golfing, reading, debating, people and most of all, her children She was a member of Iowa League of Municipalities, selective service board, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority, Garner, Garner PTO and was a former member of Crown Jewel Committee, Garner.

She is survived by two children, Ronald David Smith and Taylor Louise Smith, both of Garner; her parents, Ronald K. and Barbara L. Wood, Clear Lake; three brothers, Steven Wood and his special friend, Karla, Boise, Idaho, Keith Wood and his wife, Leslie, Mason City, and David Wood and his wife, Shannon, Clear Lake; maternal grandmother, Mabel Anderson Francis, Osage, Iowa; paternal grandmother, Frances L. Wood, Hamburg, Iowa; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Melvin S. Anderson; paternal grandfather, Willis Wood; and one sister, Debra Louise Wood.

Pallbearers were Tom Simmering, Phil Garland, Steve Meyers, Richard Hansen, Scott Wood, Dann May.